Thomas Of LANCASTER

1278 - 1322  (46 years)

• Name	Thomas Of LANCASTER  [1, 2, 3]
  	Thomas of Lancaster, son and heir, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Derby, Steward of England, present at the siege of Carlaverock 1 July 1300, Earl of Lincoln and Salisbury 'jure uxoris'; throughout nearly the whole of his career his policy was one of obstruction to his cousin the King, which he carried to the extreme of having treasonable correspondence with the Scots; died 22 Mar 1322 s.p., being beheaded outside Pontefract in the presence of his cousin, King Edward II, buried St. John's Priory, Pontefract. [1]
  Birth	Between 1276 and 1278	Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Seneschel of England   [2]
  Fact	Earl of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, and Salisbury   [2]
  Death	22 Mar 1322	Executed - Pontefract, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  	Cause: beheaded
  Burial	Priory of St. John at Pontefract Abbey   [2]
  Notes	Thomas is also known as the Earl of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, and Salisbury, Seneschel of England.
  Person ID	I34816	Main Tree
  Last Modified	23 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Edmund 'Crouchback' Of LANCASTER,   b. 16 Jan 1245, London d. 05 Jun 1296, Bayonne, Pyrennes-Atlantiques, France (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Blanche Of ARTOIS,   b. Between 1245 and 1250, Arras, France d. 02 May 1302, Paris, France (Age 57 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Between 27 Jul and 29 Oct 1276	Paris   [1, 4]
  Marriage Fact	Between 18 Dec 1275 and 19 Jan 1275/76  [5]
  Married	Bef 03 Feb 1276	Paris   [2]
  Family ID	F03673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice DE LACY,   b. 25 Dec 1281, Denbigh d. 02 Oct 1348 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	28 Oct 1294  [1, 2, 3]
  Dissolved	Abt 1318  [2]
  Family ID	F05250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Between 1276 and 1278 - Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England Fact - - Earl of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, and Salisbury Death - Cause: beheaded - 22 Mar 1322 - Executed - Pontefract, Yorkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese. [S4940] George Edward Cokayne, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and The United Kingdom Vol V. [S03483] The Spear and the Spindle: Ancestors of Sir Francis Bryan (d. 1550), Kt. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.